"Kelch der Wahrheit" [Goblet of Truth] and its Translation into the English Language

‹Kelch der Wahrheit› und dessen Übersetzung in die englische Sprache

Or, The Language of the Spiritual Teaching is German

oder Die Sprache der Geisteslehre ist das Deutsch

by Mariann Uehlinger Mondria (Switzerland), published in the FIGU Bulletin No. 73, March 2011

More than two years ago the FIGU Mother Centre decided to have the “Kelch der Wahrheit“ - the book of the entire teaching of the prophets, the teaching of truth, the teaching of spirit, the teaching of life, of Henoch (Enoch), Elia,(Elijah) Jesaja (Isaiah), Jeremia (Jeremiah), Jmmanuel (Immanuel), Muhammad (Mohammed) und Billy (BEAM) - translated into the English language so that the many human beings who are not proficient in the German language, who, however, understand English, shall likewise also enjoy the words of the prophets. (German edition: FIGU, Wassermannzeit-Verlag, CH-8495 Schmidrüti. Entire book as free download at www.figu.org. The current German/English version can be found on the English website, us.figu.org. Data bank: dict.figu.org.)

The idea was to have the translation professionally done for which reason a reputable translation firm got the job. Since it could not be assumed that the translator would be familiar with the terminology of the spiritual teaching, Billy and Ptaah suggested Willem and me for the checking and, if need be, the necessary correcting of the translation(s). Naturally, that was an honour, and we began filled with elan. However, soon we had to recognise that, without Billy’s help, we couldn’t get anywhere. Too many German words, terms and forms of expression come up which are in no dictionary (neither book nor internet) and are certainly also completely new and unknown to most German-speaking people. For a long time already, ”experts“ have adapted the valuable German more and more to the inadequate newer foreign languages, instead of searching out the true value of a word, term or expression. Above all, bearing the blame for that is the extremely ruinous influence of Christianity, whose representatives in the 4th century, obsessed by belief-delusion, destroyed everything which did not fit with the Christian belief, in an unparalleled wave of destruction. And that which they did not destroy was stolen and mendaciously incorporated into the new Christian church. Whoever has already read, or rather, studied “Kelch der Wahrheit“ knows of what I speak. The thinking and language are no longer directed towards Creation, its activities and the truth and reality, neither in the realm of the material, the consciousness, nor spirit; rather, it is predominantly directed towards that which is religious. Nearly 90% of the spiritual teaching terms have deteriorated, in current language use, into religiously delusional unvalues. All words and terms are indeed available in the German language, only the human being does not know how to use them (any more). So, for example, the spiritual teaching term, “Verehrung“, which embodies the original value ”Ehrerweisung”, [honour] “Anerkennung” [recognition], “Hochachtung”, [high regard] “Hochschätzung” [high esteem], “Würdeerweisung” [showing dignity] etc., these days only means “Vergötterung” [idolisation], “Huldigung” [homage], “Anhimmelung” [worship] etc. That is also the reason for why most examples in (internet) reference works have a religious-submissive content. (Also see the answer to the reader’s question of Schantz Scott, USA, in the FIGU Special Bulletin Nr. 45, October 2008.) Belief-delusion has been so widely spread since time immemorial that human beings know nothing else and therefore also do not wonder about it – let alone want something else.

Everywhere, “Gesetz und Gebot“ is translated as “law and commandment“, because Gebote are supposed to be to do with “God’s Commandments“, so to speak, and if they are not kept, God’s punishment is supposed to come down upon the ”Sünder“ [sinner]. However, Billy says that the Gebote are in no way commandments, rather they are solely recommendations – derived from the creational laws - which, sensibly, should be kept if the human being wants to lead a Creation-fulfilling life. So, in “Goblet of Truth“, the book of the entire teaching of the prophets, only ”laws and recommendations“ are spoken of, because, for millennia, the human being has also been misled in regard to "Gebote".

Along with that which is religious in the English language, there is also the illogicality in the forming of negatives, as, for example, for the following German terms, of which there are, however, innumerable examples.

Either there exists no opposite noun, rather only a wrong paraphrase, or the word is formed with ”dis...” instead of ”un...”, as, for example, in Unfrieden, which in English is called ”dispeace“ instead of ”unpeace“. According to Billy, the prefix “dis...” does not, however, mean the opposite, rather more a “falling away” from something. A falling away from peace is, however, not to be equated with Unfrieden. In the same way, Unwissen is not a lack of knowledge, and certainly not ignorance, rather Unwissen is the opposite of Wissen. A lack of knowledge only means that not everything is known. Also, an Unwert does not have the same meaning as Wertlosigkeit [being without value]. An Unwert is something negative, the opposite of Wert [value]. It is something harmful, not simply something valueless and thus something which is without value for one (subjectively).

For some terms, we cannot, with the best will, find any suitable translation in English – other languages are, however, no better – because the going translation is unsuitable. And, in fact, these are:

What you (Note: ie. Billy) have just said corresponds exactly to that which was also explained to me by our linguists. I was further instructed that the Latin term ”violent“ stems from the old Lyran ”Filent“, which means ”heftig“. The term was changed again in the course of time and taken up in a falsifying way in other languages, and interpreted misleadingly as ”Gewalt“. But Gewalt has nothing to do with ”heftig“ and ”Heftigkeit“, because the old Lyran term concerning ”Gewalt“ means ”Gewila“, and it is defined as ”to use - with all compelling means at ones disposal - capabilities and skills, physical, psychical and mental powers, and powers pertaining to the consciousness, in order to carry out and practice monstrous deeds and actions“. That is the definition of ”Gewalt“ as it was explained by our linguists.

This, and also Billy’s explanations, are the reason why, in the entire ”Goblet of Truth“, the word ”Gewalt“ was not translated, rather is also left as “Gewalt” in the English - simply furnished with an explanation.

Right from the start, Billy has not liked the translation of “Ausartung”; namely, ”degeneration“ or ”degeneracy“. However, for a long time, we could simply not find anything more sensible. When “Ausartung” is spoken of in ”Kelch der Wahrheit” ("Goblet of Truth"), no degeneration, that is to say, no disintegration of the genes, is meant. It is rather the human being’s good nature badly falling away, that is to say, falling out of control. So, for “Ausartung”, we also decided to leave the German word in place in the English, and to provide a corresponding explanation.

Naturally it is not always because of English that we progress so slowly, rather also that, on the part of the German and Swiss German Languages, many old words and terms were dropped or were replaced by anglicisms and other bad falsifications – as already mentioned. Thus many words, terms and forms of expressions, which Billy uses in his German and Swiss German, no longer exist or exist only in falsified form. When Ptaah and Billy converse in Swiss German they have no difficulties with understanding, because also with the Plejaren, thinking and language is directed towards the pure value of the word – and additionally, they are both relatively proficient in the language.

” ... and they believe that their false prophets and priests and other servants (hands/helpers) of gods and tin gods are savants in gods and savants in tin gods, which is why they are [hoffärtig] to them.

You are surely now thinking of ”eitel” [vain]. We also thought that, but, “… weshalb sie ihnen eitel sind“ [”...which is why they are vain to them“] naturally makes no sense. Neither ”Das treffende Wort” [The Right Word, a book] nor “WAHRIG Deutsches Wörterbuch” [WAHRIG German Dictionary] - which correctly would have to be called ”Wortebuch“ - give anything for ”hoffärtig“ other than “eitel, übertrieben, stolz, etc“.[vain, exaggerated, proud, etc]. Naturally one can guess and assume what “hoffärtig“ could mean - that is to say - would have to mean, in the context of the sentence. “Kniefällig und untertänig“ [upon one’s knees and subservient] come to mind, but is that correct? Thanks to Billy’s help, we chose “schleimig unterwürfig” [slimily subservient]. For the ”Goblet of Truth“ «… weshalb sie ihnen hoffärtig sind» is now translated in the following way:

«… and they believe that their false prophets and priests and other servants (hands/helpers) of gods and tin gods are savants in gods and savants in tin gods, which is why they are slimily subservient to them.

«… and they believe that their false prophets and priests and other servants (hands/helpers) of gods and tin gods are savants in gods and savants in tin gods, which is why they are slimily subservient to them.

Do you know the word ‹höfèlè› oder ‹höbèlè? Yes, exactly. This ”hoffärtig“ is still contained in our Swiss dialect and is translated according to www.dialektwoerter.ch as “schmeicheln“ [flatter] which is naturally much too harmless.

And everything that they offer you in terms of all the delusional, confusing, false and far-from-the-truth teachings, you cannot really understand it, because it is written in foreign expressions and words as well as in academic sentences, with which you give yourselves airs and boast if you can cite them, but in reality you understand them every bit as little as those who write, teach and spread the whole drivel of false teachings.

None of the aforementioned reference texts mention ”meinen“ in this sense. Only in dialect does one know the word; for example, when one says: «Mosch di gar nöd meinè.» (Du brauchst Dich gar nicht zu meinen resp. nicht wichtig zu machen.) [There’s no need to be so full of your own importance.]

One matter which provided quite a bit to discuss was to do with ”Götze“. I liked ”tin god“, thus Blech-Gott [metal god] or Zinn-Gott [tin god], which, however, brought out some American know-it-alls, who asserted that the correct translation for Götze is ”idol“. Billy’s “Oh, nonsense. Idol actually means something quite different!“ was barely heeded, for which reason Ptaah was asked to clear up the matter and to define it for posterity:

... Concerning the translations, the difficulties are very well known to me, as is therefore also the completely wrong interpretation of the term Götze, which is wrongly interpreted as idol, which, however, is fundamentally wrong, as our linguists have explained to me. An idol can never be compared to a Götze, just as a Götze can never be compared to an idol. The explanation is that an idol (Note. Billy: Idol = Greek. eidolon, Lat. idolum = the picture, the form) embodies a shadow of one who has departed from the norm - that is to say, separated from the norm - specifically in regard to thought-feeling-related motions. These are thereby such that, as a result of a pathological disorder of the functions of intelligence and rationality, a delusion arises as a result of which one’s self- esteem is disregarded and it is only directed at the delusional construction. This, then, is the idol, which is regarded, like a ghost, as a special apparition, and is vehemently swarmed around, idolised and is admired as something very particular and special, namely as a form, whereby this can always only be a human being. The reasons for the idolisation of the human being can thereby be very manifold, as, for example, relating to his appearance, his way of speaking, the tone of his voice, his singing, his world of thoughts and world of feelings, his deeds, his actions, his activity, his behaviour and conduct, his knowledge and his achievements, and so forth. In contrast to that is the Götze, which embodies a false god - that is to say, an anti-god - in opposition to a religiously acknowledged god and god-creator. A Götze is thereby, in any case, an artificially manufactured object or a statue, and so forth, which, as a result of belief-delusion, is thought to be the creating power, and is supposed to have influence on the destiny and the prosperousness, or ruin, of the human being. A Götze is, in any case, an alteration of the religious term “Gott”, which is an anti-god, and thereby a Götze, which is set in opposition to a religious divinity. A Götze is, in any case, considered to be some form of higher wesen, and, indeed, in the form of a worshipped object, a picture or a statue, and so forth. In the original monotheistic religious sense, the term Götze means ”false god“. Seen in the true sense of the interpretation of the term and the facts: within all monotheistic religions, as well as with all non-theistic or polytheistic religions, all ”pictures of saints“, cult utensils, statues, ritual objects, and so forth, with which - and through which - the services are performed, are Götzen.

Since Billy already works day and night, so to speak – and that is seven days a week and not just five, as is the case with most others – this translation work naturally did not come at the right time at all. Also Ptaah did not at all like to see Billy having to expend so much time in order to help us, because it was never intended that the spiritual teaching would be translated into another language. Based on our big problems with the translation of words and terms from the High German language into the much more limited English, Ptaah finally did have a certain understanding. (No reproach is thereby made of the translator - an English man with good knowledge of German - as he gave his best.) Concerning the language of the spiritual teaching, the following is recorded in the 480th rd contact, October, 3 , 2009, 2.58, pm:

... And what there is still to say concerning the German language: at a very early time, when the mission was decided upon, it had already been recognised that, in the new age, only one single language and its derivatives can represent everything in the right way. Therefore it was already determined at an earlier time that, with the mission, priority should be given to the pure German language, for which there is no equivalent comparison with any terrestrial language; consequently, only through the German language can everything be expressed and explained in the right way, and precisely. All other terrestrial languages show a great poverty of expression, consequently, inadequate and falsifying terms are used in them which, in the German language, specifically indicate something else. But there are also terms used in the many terrestrial, and extremely inadequate, languages which trivialise and play down the powerful German terms. As a consequence, inadequate descriptions must result from the language conversions - that is to say, the translations of German terms into the other inadequate terrestrial languages - whereby the real and deep sense of that which is expressed in the German language is lost. But that already corresponds to a falsification of the original text, which always leads, in the course of time - as a result of wrong interpretations, and so forth - to further changes and falsifications. Consequently, the original text and the content, in terms of its meaning, can finally no longer be recognised.

As we likewise learnt in this context; German would now be spoken in the USA - and thereby certainly more or less worldwide – had everything gone properly with the vote at that time, in the 18th century. (See also ”Offener Brief an Guido Westerwelle“[Open letter to Guido Westerwelle] by Bernadette Brand.) Since this unfortunate day the US Americans have tried to drive out the German language wherever it goes. Unfortunately many Swiss Companies – first and foremost banks and insurance firms – offer them a hand in that they elevate US-American to the company language and take away from the many German and Swiss speaking employees the possibility of expressing themselves carefully, appropriately and correctly. In regard to that there are a few words from Florena and Billy from Contact 477, Monday, February 23rd, 2009, 12.37 am.

Easily said, yet difficult to do, because everywhere in the world lousy and miserable English is used and spread, whereby there have already been especially serious efforts on the part of the USA for around 100 years to cause, of all things, the German language to vanish; a language which, in terms of its entire value, has no parallel in all other terrestrial languages.

The information from the language experts which was given to me informs us that the actual German language as well as Swiss German stems from the ancient language-branch ”ARJN“, from which all Germanic, Indo-Germanic, Latin, and Celtic languages and dialects have come forth; then, unfortunately, also the very inadequate English language, which essentially only corresponds to an auxiliary language. But fundamentally - as it was explained to me - German and Swiss German, each with its own dialects, are two different independent languages, which however, exhibit a certain relationship. Each language - German and Swiss German - has its own dialects, just as becomes evident with the main languages and principle auxiliary languages. Therefore, those terrestrials versed in the knowledge of languages make assumptions from completely wrong premises concerning the connections between languages and dialects, as they very often also do in regard to the initial origin of words and terms. They often live in assumptions and suppositions concerning this, without fundamentally possessing real knowledge. Therefore Swiss German is erroneously also called German, although this deals with two different languages.

As Ptaah, and naturally also Billy mentioned several times, it is almost impossible to be precise in a language other than German, because often no appropriate word can be found for a German word in another language spoken on Earth. So, with the oversight/correction of the ”Goblet of Truth“ (“Kelch der Wahrheit”) there remains no choice for us other than to laboriously search for German synonyms, in order to find a somewhat suitable English word in this way. We thereby immediately come to another problem; namely that the synonyms cited in the books are also not suitable. According to Billy, not even the German linguists are familiar with the extensive values and meanings of terms and words of the German languages and of Swiss German, in the way that he had learned - from Sfath, as a boy - to understand, to interpret and to explain them, from the ground up.

It dawns on me with horror that it is not only in regard to religions that we live in falseness and in delusional guidance, but also in regard to our languages. Just as four fifths of the entire population of the Earth believes – therefore does not know! – that, based on a belief-delusion, about which it has been lied to and which it has been presented as illusion by the god-serving and tin -god[Götzen]- serving priests and clerics; we take on, more or less uncritically, what our ”Dudens“, ”Wahrigs“, ”Langenscheidts“, ”Ponds“, ”Cassels“ & Co. [ie. German dictionaries] pass off to us, puffed up as knowledge. In the next couple of hundred years, not only will quite a lot change in regard to religions, rather also in regard to our languages, namely when the human being’s ”horizon“ (consciousness) massively expands and he or she recognises the full extent of the oppression, enslavement and exploitation deliberately steered by the authorities – that is to say, of church, state, and economics.

Whoever wants to translate medical texts, should understand something about medicine, and whoever translates spiritual teaching texts should actually intensively study the spiritual teaching. But naturally one cannot and must not expect that of an outside translator. What is more, he would have to resolve to do that through his own motivation. Every translation stands of falls with the translator’s knowledge of the subject. Seen in this way, all translations of spiritual teaching texts expose the translator’s subjective comprehension and understanding of the teaching as well as his or her degree of language competence. When I read existing translations, ever since my work on the ”Goblet of Truth”, I mentally clasp my head in my hands. So often the true sense of the German text is not correctly understood and for that reason is passed on misleadingly, so that one must seriously ask oneself why human beings who are interested in the spiritual teaching do not immediately begin with the study of the German language, in order to get it all first-hand. Since the spiritual teaching terms do not exist in any other language than German, a 1:1 translation is completely impossible anyway. Furthermore, in all other languages, since time immemorial, most spiritual teaching terms have already been degraded into religious terms. As only one example of many, take the expression ”zugetan sein“. 99.9% of English-speaking human beings would, without hesitation, translate ”zugetan sein“ as ”devoted to“, although in ”devoted to” subordination (devot) is already included. They do not at all consider that Creation has not determined any subordination for the human being, rather independence and self-sufficiency, in thinking and actions. No human being can turn to the determination of his or her life – namely consciousness and spiritual evolution – if he or she submits himself or herself to someone or to a situation, instead of thinking and acting himself or herself!

“You shall be connected to the real truth alone, because only through it can all things prosper rightfully and lead to success, and only the real truth is in love the sign-posting (leading thought) of life.”

«You shall be connected to the real truth alone, because only through it can all things prosper rightfully and lead to success, and only the real truth is in love the sign-posting (leading thought) of life.»

Often it is helpful to simply carry out a small alteration, so that the message of the verse is correct, as, for example, with ”Stumpfsinn“, where the normal translations such as ”stupor“, or, “apathy“ are not at all suitable, because, according to Billy, Stumpfsinn deals with a stumpfes [blunt] consciousness ...:

“… because you recognise that each religious or other belief is merely made out of a blunt consciousness, …”

«… because you recognise that each religious or other belief is merely made out of a blunt consciousness, …»

Based on our experience with the ”Goblet of Truth“ the FIGU Mother Centre will no longer translate any further books and texts, since, according to statements from the Plejaren linguists - who have studied all already translated texts! - the works only contain inadequate translation values compared to that which is put forward in the German language.

… Many times the real original sense is lost in the translations because the necessary accurate expressions, terms and words do not exist in the languages in question. Very often even synonyms don't exist that could be used as absolutely equal meaning of words and, therefore, could be exchanged or replaced in a text without changing the information being conveyed or its sense. Countless terms and words that are given in the German language do not exist in all other terrestrial languages, and besides, the true sense and value of many terms and words are not correctly recognised, and, therefore, absolutely wrongly interpreted. On the one hand this occurs because the origin of terms and words is entirely unknown, or because a wrong origin is assumed, which is even the case with linguists of the German language, i.e. the Germanists, and which leads to fundamentally wrong explanations of terms and words. …The whole can only then be of benefit and value to those who are learning and interested, if they make an effort to learn the German language extensively in order to then turn towards the content of the spiritual teaching works and to learn everything. Translations of the spiritual teaching and all related works into other terrestrial languages only represent a poor reflection regarding the true sense, when such translations are made. -

On one hand it is a pity, because aside from the great effort and Sisyphean task, it is a pricelessly valuable experience – and also connected with joy and fun – to search with Billy for somewhat suitable German terms, when the words, terms and forms of expression used in the ”Kelch der Wahrheit“ simply cannot be translated. On the other hand, Billy’s time is much too valuable to spend on a work which, in the end, does not convey the true sense and value of his works. Willem and I are, however, immensely grateful to Billy for his extremely valuable help and support, and naturally also that, during this joint effort we could, thanks to him, learn and understand so much.